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Throwing Shadows - Couverture souple

Konigsburg, E.L.

 
9781416949596: Throwing Shadows
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1416949593 ISBN 13 : 9781416949596
Editeur : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2007

Synopsis

' A retired college president is determined to best a young beachcomber

' A store manager accuses a boy of shoplifting

' A tour guide strikes a bargain with an enterprising orphan

' A boy recovering from a broken arm befriends an elderly woman

in an old folks' home

' A widow and her son seize an opportunity presented

by a pair of antiques dealers

In each of these extraordinary short stories from the perceptive pen of E. L. Konigsburg, a chance meeting between two people casts a shadow on what things have been and what they can become, and changes a life forever.

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À propos de l'auteur

E.L. Konigsburg is the only author to have received the Newbery Medal and a Newbery Honor in the same year. In 1968, From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler won the Newbery Medal and Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth was named a Newbery Honor Book. Almost thirty years later she won the Newbery Medal once again for The View from Saturday. Among her other acclaimed books are Silent to the Bone, The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place, and A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver.

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Éditeur
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Date d'édition
2007
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1416949593
ISBN 13 
9781416949596
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
176
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
Simon and Schuster Netherlands BV, GPSR Europäische Union
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